LING 4P10 Chapter Notes - Chapter .: Cognitive Grammar, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Revolution
29 Jan 2016
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3 central cognitive or behavioral problems in the study of sla: the cognitive structures and abilities that underlie l2 use, the relevant linguistic input, the capacity for language acquisition. Basic assumption in sla research is that learners create a language system. Its important that the learners impose structure on the available linguistic data and formulate an internalized system. Performance data re the researchers mainstay but understanding underling competence (not the external behavior that depends on that competence) is the ultimate goal. Language learning is a matter of change in a learners internal mental state which is why sla is increasingly viewed as a branch of cognitive science. Term cognitivism is used to denote that: the mind/brain is the necessary and sufficient locus of human thought and learning, such thought and learning is a form of information processing. Human mind was given the place formerly reserved for god, as the organizing principle of human existence.
